A real thyroid blushes dark pink, surrounded by lighter fascia and dappled with blood, but Sarah Elizabeth Lane’s vivid print “Anatomical Botanicals: Thyroid” (Spring 2022 Intima) transforms the muted tones of internal neck anatomy into a vivid floral bouquet. The trachea, like a striped blue vase, holds up folded red buds of thyroid surrounded by a profusion of berries and leaves. Via email, Lane let me know these plants are açaí and ashwaganda, and that she tries to limit her palette to three colors. Lane’s anatomy-related works push the medical eye to decontextualize the body from an aseptic, gritty, medico-industrial perspective and connect it with the beauty that feeds our souls.
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Anatomical Botanical: Thyroid by Sarah Elizabeth Lane
© Anatomical Botanical: Thyroid Sarah Elizabeth Lane Spring 2022 Intima

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